{"id":309,"date":"2016-02-26T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/nonprofitentrepreneur\/?p=309"},"modified":"2016-02-26T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T01:08:18","slug":"friday-forum-church-one-big-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nonprofitentrepreneur\/2016\/02\/friday-forum-church-one-big-blame-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Forum: Church &#8211; One Big Blame Game!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Nonprofit Entrepreneur as a new model for church leadership!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/synervisionleadership.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-125\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/600\/2016\/01\/2-11.jpg\" alt=\"The Friday Forum\" width=\"539\" height=\"336\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>February 26, 2016<\/p>\n<p>The Friday Forum today is about\u2026<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Is Church One Big Blame Game?<\/h3>\n<p>The church is thought of as a community of faith on a spiritual journey together. It\u2019s considered to be a safe place where grace abounds and people support each other rather than judge each other. The pastor is the spiritual leader, however how often does the pastor blame others for situations the pastor has created?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is this the real situation or has church just become one big blame game?<\/li>\n<li>Do we hide\u00a0behind the banner of Jesus?<\/li>\n<li>Do we blame others for the problems that we, the leader, set up and are clueless?<\/li>\n<li>Are\u00a0members blaming each other or the leadership? What\u2019s the root cause of this?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please comment below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><b><i>Hugh Ballou<br>\n<\/i><\/b><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/transformationalstrategist.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Transformational Leadership Strategist<\/a>\u00a0<sup>TM<br>\n<\/sup><\/em><sup>Read about me on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cherylsnappconner\/2013\/12\/17\/what-a-music-conductor-knows-about-leadership-hugh-ballou\/#2715e4857a0b4588799135c8\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Forbes<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/h4>\n<div><b>(c)\u00a02016 Hugh Ballou. 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